Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1887-05-21

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Tho editor If the Eastern PFortNce Herald
writes from Pur, Elisabeth calling aeesos'o0
70 Ilocr brutality In the rransveAl The %.
curscy Of tho account 70 vouched Tor
Mvu.me n nam, ! am about "a yearo Of
.~S' On Monday lest Was discharged from
the Pretoria jail, after being imprisonsd tor
wv v.s ssid to have been impudsnt 70
nut Mrs D. said that I he'd entiosd
the sirl Rsohei to run away. The field
snS :.a c.oS ,hs. %pSa.us %onss
aud take her 10 the prison." Maraba aaid
that should TN tax en- 10 the lapddruse First
I wss taken to the lAnddrost The landrost
said that must psy hno of - or 90 70 the
i've lashsA Mra u. aaid that he'd come 70
sntice her girl away, and that Charlotte was
the impudsnt one Charlotte Wae fined ~
l0s, which IVES paid. Rschel IVES nued 81
lO&, which was paid by y. CoeiEee, and sbs
could not pay I was sent 70 the tronk and
ordered 10 get twenty i've lasheA was locked
up for three weeks, and then the landdrOss
came 10 the troub ana ordered me out 70 re.
ceive the twenty i've lashss while no stood
and wss logged until | tainted. The blood
cauo out ot INV back while I Was logged. /
had oil my clothes taken oil with the e1cep.
ton of my chemise, which was held round
fiogged. When tho lauddrat came was
washing his clotbeA When ! recovered from
my faint found myself on the blankeS In
the night OF the day that IVES hoGged they
sent for doctor. lie pulled open my mouth
In the middle Of the night The next day
was told IN 20 and finish tho washinE OF the
lauddrost's clothes The landdrost's maid,
Maviss, Who was In tho trOnk, TOLD the land.
drost that would not wssh the closh0a l
d,d no. say NJ, hut l could nos ws.h q my
nogged bv order OF the lsuddrost Tho first
time she had tiftssn lsshea, which were In
fitcted In the mems yard. Sho was stripped,
ber chemise being tied about her - mine
waa She was then nogved ON her shoul.
dera She WAS put In ths tronk for two days
on that occasion. When she got out she went
to the lAuddrosrs house, and ~ shs refused
to work In conss quence OF her beck being
sore she WAS ssDt back for four days aud to
rscsivs fogging al twenty-five lsshss. As
her beck was too raw To to fiogged again In
the same place I was told 70 roll up her
ehemiss ~ that she could be fioRged lower
down. That npsginR took place In the
WOuisn's yards. Mr. Van Reoneu wos pres
en-. sud ihe woman vas logged oy "J.ck." {"
Van Reenen would not lot me be beaten at
frst, because, he said, was too weak.
About thrss weeks alter was put In the
Ionk the lAuddroat came up in order 70 soe
that his sentence on me was carried out, and
was tied up and logged In his preaence,
tho landdrnsi standing In front OF ma When
the lauddrOst WAS told that would not tin-
ish the washing OF his clothes, he ordered me
10 be put IN the stocks, and l was kept In the
stocks for two days aud two nights, and kept
without :ood the whole time. ! know OF SIX
women being hogged while l was In the
tronk. All wers logged with the cat o.
nine tails, and all were beaten by Jack, !"
who does all ths logging In the jail.